Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...site of the doomed dinosaur rookery during an expedition to remote badlands in central Argentina last November. Scattered over a square mile of parched Patagonian soil, they found the whole or shattered remains of thousands of grapefruit-size, fossilized dinosaur eggs--so many, in fact, that they couldn't avoid crushing them underfoot or with the wheels of their cars. "We were picking up eggs all over the place," says the American Museum of Natural History's Lowell Dingus, a geologist who is a leader of the expedition...
...miss, however, was her continuous attack on postmodernism and its purveyors in Ivy League humanities departments. Her repeated stressing of this "disaster" conveyed the sense that postmodernism is a palpable evil, one which will bite your arm or steal your soul if you are not careful enough to avoid...
...really hard situation to avoid because we work with such potentially hazardous materials," Evans says. "Part of the blame lies in the oversight of the manufacturer of the chemical, who neglected to note that the chemical needed to be stored at zero degrees Celsius. The accident resulted from a lack of understanding, both on the part of the supplier and the student...
Producer Sean ("Puffy") Combs, head of Bad Boy Records, pushed back the release date for one of his groups, the vocal quartet 112, to avoid the crush. "People are putting out albums because it's the holiday, not because the albums are ready," says Combs. "There's a lot of greed out there." He predicts the aftermath of Super Tuesday won't be pretty: "It's going to look like a crash on Wall Street...
Credit-card holders who let their monthly bills collect dust are paying a high price for tardiness. That's the conclusion of a new Consumer Action study, which shows that banks have increased late fees 75% since 1995, to $21 on average. To avoid stiff penalties, according to Bank Rate Monitor, try a local credit union or a low-fee national lender like Cleveland's Metropolitan Savings Bank or Chicago's Pullman Bank & Trust...